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Tlingit-Haida-Tsimpshian As a Second Language
Theme: Seasonal Transportation
Lesson 1
Grade 7 - Grade 12
Motivation
Before the lesson begins, prepare an audio tape that contains the sound of a transportation form
- a car, a snowmobile, etc. Group the students together and play the tape for them. The students
should identify the sound that they hear. Use this to introduce transportation forms to the students.
Introduction
• Collect pictures, models, parts of transportation forms, etc. to introduce the different transportation
forms to the students (e.g., a hub cap for car, a spring for snowmachine, etc.). Introduce
each item, encouraging the students to name the transportation form associated with each one
and the season(s) during which they are used.
Introduce the Tlingit/Haida/Tsimshian vocabulary words for the items introduced above.
Show the vocabulary pictures from this Unit.
• Nod and Clap
Basic Listening
Mount the vocabulary illustrations on the chalkboard. Point to one of the illustra tions and say its
name. The students should nod their heads to indicate that you said the correct vocabulary word
for the illustration. However, when you point to an illustration and say an incorrect name for it, the
students should clap their hands ONCE. Repeat this process until all of the vocabulary illustrations
have been used a number of times in this way.
• Flashlight Encode
Basic Speaking
Prepare a photocopied set of the vocabulary illustrations. Cut each of the photocopied illustrations
in half. Mix all of the halves to gether and mount them on the chalkboard, in a scattered form.
Stand some distance from the chalkboard with two flashlights. Shine the two flash lights on two
illustration halves. If the two halves illuminated by the flashlights represent a vocabulary illus -
tration, the students should iden tify it orally. However, if the two halves do not go together to rep -
resent a vocabu lary illustration, the students should remain silent. Re peat this process until all
vo cabulary illustrations have been identified in this way.
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